Iran’s Idani Pouya wins 1st Goa Grandmaster Open

Photo: Niklesh Jain/ ChessBase India

The Goa Chess Association under the aegis of All India Chess Federation hosted its 1st Goa International Open Grandmaster Chess Tournament at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium Bambolim from October 13-20.

Iranian GM Idani Pouya emerged champion following his impressive final round win over recently minted India’s  Grandmaster Karthik Venkataraman.

After a thrilling and nerve wrecking eight days event, which saw many unexpected results and upsets.  Idani, was declared the winner with 8.5 points.

Five players finished with eight points but despite equal on the table, GM Babujain Levon and GM Deepan Chakkravarthy finished second and third respectively due to the better tie-break points.

Chief guest and Goa’s Sports Minister Manohar Manohar Ajgaonkar gave away the prizes in the presence of Power Minister and GCA President Nilesh Cabral, All India Chess Federation Secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan, AICF Treasurer and Tournament Director Kishor Bandekar, FC Goa CEO Akshay Tandon, ONGC Chess Sports Head Vikas Nigam, Nestle Group Sanjay Khajuria, Vedanta Group Sauvik Mazumdar, Vimson Group Chairman Shivanand Salgaoncar, Delta Corporation Chairman Jaidev Modi, GCA Vice President Mahesh Candolkar, GCA Treasurer Vishwas Pilankar.

Final Ranking after 10 Rounds

Rk.	SNo			Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	K	rtg+/-
1	5		GM	Idani Pouya		IRI	2588	IRI	8,5	0,0	60,5	66,0	55,50	7	10	12,6
2	18		GM	Babujian Levon		ARM	2456	ARM	8,0	0,0	63,5	68,0	53,50	6	10	23,9
3	11		GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.		IND	2540	RLYS	8,0	0,0	63,5	67,5	52,00	6	10	9,6
4	9		GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel		ARM	2547	ARM	8,0	0,0	60,0	65,0	51,00	8	10	8,4
5	19		GM	Kasparov Sergey		BLR	2453	BLR	8,0	0,0	60,0	64,0	49,00	7	10	21,3
6	54			Raahul V S		IND	2294	TN	8,0	0,0	59,5	63,5	50,00	6	20	58,8
7	27		IM	Das Sayantan		IND	2425	WB	7,5	0,0	61,0	65,5	46,25	6	10	13,2
8	2		GM	Amonatov Farrukh		TJK	2615	TJK	7,5	0,0	59,0	64,5	47,00	7	10	-3,4
9	3		GM	Predke Alexandr		RUS	2615	RUS	7,5	0,0	59,0	64,0	46,25	6	10	-10,7
10	12		IM	Karthik Venkataraman		IND	2525	AP	7,5	0,0	58,5	63,5	45,25	7	10	-1,9
11	28		IM	Akash G		IND	2424	TN	7,5	0,0	56,0	60,5	43,00	6	10	8,7
12	6		GM	Tukhaev Adam		UKR	2556	UKR	7,5	0,0	55,5	58,5	43,25	6	10	-7,9
13	36		IM	Rathnakaran K.		IND	2366	RLYS	7,5	0,0	51,0	55,0	40,00	6	10	7,7
14	10		GM	Sivuk Vitaly		UKR	2545	UKR	7,0	0,0	65,0	71,0	47,50	5	10	3,4
15	4		GM	Popov Ivan		RUS	2611	RUS	7,0	0,0	62,5	66,5	43,50	6	10	-13,2
16	15		GM	Neverov Valeriy		UKR	2488	UKR	7,0	0,0	60,0	65,5	43,25	6	10	8,4
17	26		IM	Bakunts Rafael		ARM	2427	ARM	7,0	0,0	57,5	61,5	40,00	6	10	-3,1
18	32		IM	Gusain Himal		IND	2384	RLYS	7,0	0,0	55,5	60,0	39,25	6	10	8,0
19	16		GM	Kunte Abhijit		IND	2484	PSPB	7,0	0,0	51,5	56,5	39,00	4	10	-15,1
20	53		FM	Nitish Belurkar		IND	2295	GOA	7,0	0,0	51,5	54,0	36,75	5	20	15,0
21	41		IM	Kathmale Sameer		IND	2343	RLYS	7,0	0,0	49,5	53,5	37,50	4	20	-29,2
22	88			Singh S. Vikramjit		IND	2192	RLYS	7,0	0,0	49,5	53,0	37,00	5	20	5,8
23	46		IM	Mohammad Minhaz Uddin		BAN	2328	BAN	7,0	0,0	46,0	47,5	34,25	6	10	-17,3
24	7		GM	Malakhatko Vadim		BEL	2552	BEL	6,5	0,0	61,0	66,0	41,25	5	10	-10,8
25	1		GM	Kravtsiv Martyn		UKR	2654	UKR	6,5	0,0	60,5	66,0	40,50	6	10	-19,2

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